The OpenStack board had held its first board meeting since the ratification of a new structure in San Diego, California.

OpenStack was spun up in 2010 as a Linux-for-the-cloud, an attempt to create a core kernel that anybody can contribute to and use under a permissive licence, one which is not owned by a single company.

It was intended, in part, as an alternative to the closed VMware hypervisor.

With the hypervisor market saturated and competition coming from Microsoft, VMware will be keen to ensure its other APIs work with OpenStack, while those in the OpenStack ecosystem see an opportunity to work with the VMware APIs on its Cloud Foundry. ®